Some sort of press?

[lvgforum]

Hello,

Just wondering if anyone has any ideas.

Grandpa thought it was an old bearing press or pipe tool but he wasn't sure. 

It's about 28" tall. Thanks,

[Papaw]

Welcome to Tool Talk!

That might be a fixture to hold an electric drill to make a drill press. The lower jaws don't look substantial enough to press a bearing.

[lvgforum]

Yeah that's sort of like what my grandpa said, something about electric motor bearings.

Maybe we're on the right track. I haven't found anything on eBay or Google related to those terms.

Maybe someone else has seen one of these before.

Thanks for the welcome,

[Aunt Phil]

Back in the 1950s when homeowners began to have basement shops and electric drills about every maker of electric drills had a device similar to that in their offering.
A man who owned a ½" electric drill was king of his block.  A man who owned the drill press conversion setup was KING of the subdivision. 

I have a Black & Decker complete with drill motor from that era.  It has a set of adapters B&D never thought of so I can clamp it to pipe or square tube and drill holes easily and almost effortlessly.   
Handy as hell to have because it can be easily carried onto a jobsite, and does more work than a magnetic drill press.

[Billman49]

Agreed, it's a drill press for an electric drill - many were type specific e.g. Black and Decker - your appears to be universal, to take a range of different makes...

The most common make in the UK was Wolf....

[lvgforum]

Thank you all,